SAINT
saint-earconwald
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Erkenwald, died 693, was a Saxon prince who served as Bishop of London between 675 and 693 and is the first post-Roman-period Bishop of London to begin the unbroken succession in the Saxon See of London. He is the eponymous subject of the poem St. Erkenwald, regarded as one of the most important poems in the foundations of English literature, and thought to be by the same author as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The poem is concerned with ecumenical and interfaith dynamics.
feast Day
04-30
patronages
- against gout
- London
birth Date
630
death Date
693
canonization Status
canonized
feast Month
4
feast Day Of Month
30

